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When you create a plot style table, it is important to remember that it can be
used with many different plotters and that the plotter and mode determine
what parts of the plot style table are enabled.
■ When using a pen plotter with user assigned pens, the virtual pen number
and any color assignments are ignored.
■ When using a pen plotter with automatically assigned pens, pens are
selected based on entity color and entity lineweight. Virtual pen numbers
are ignored.
■ When using a raster plotter in raster mode, the physical pen number and
the virtual pen number are ignored.
■ When using a raster plotter in virtual pen mode, everything except the
virtual pen number is ignored.
NOTE If you use another application to process your plot files after creating them,
and you modify the pen attributes, plotting without using virtual pens results in
pen numbers in the plot file having no simple relationship to object colors in the
program. This makes it difficult to apply additional pen attributes.
To specify a virtual pen number
1 Click Format ➤ Plot Style.
2 Double-click the plot style table that you want to modify.
3 In the Plot Style Table Editor, Form View tab, select the plot style you
want to change and click Virtual Pen.
4 Under Virtual Pen #, enter a number between 1 and 255 or enter 0 or
Automatic to have the program assign the ACI color of the object you
are plotting to the virtual pen.
5 When finished, click Save & Close.
You can edit properties for multiple plot styles while in the Plot Style
Table Editor.
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